Andre R. Guttfreund

Andre R. Guttfreund (born November 6, 1946) is a Salvadoran film director, producer and filmmaker. He is better known for the production of the 1976 short film In the Region of Ice, for which he received an Oscar at the 1977 Academy Awards with Peter Werner for Best Live Action Short Film, becoming the first and so far only Central American to receive an Oscar.

Biography Guttfreund was the eldest of five children and the son of a Romanian actress and a German diplomat. As a kid, he studied at the Escuela Americana in San Salvador. When he was 13 years-old he travelled to the US and attended Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona, then he studied political science at Tufts University. After graduating from his master, Guttfreund was invited to El Salvador by Walter Béneke, the then Minister of Education of El Salvador, to start the Educative Television project with him. Guttfreund was director of the Educative Television project from 1971 to 1973. After that, he came back to the US and studied production and directing at the American Film Institute Conservatory and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

In 1976, Guttfreund produced his first film In the Region of Ice, and received the Oscar in the category of Best Live Action Short Film, becoming the first and so far only Central American to receive an Oscar. He has been president of the Salvadoran Film and Television Association (ASCINE) from 2012 to 2016. In this capacity, he also worked as an adviser to the Ministry of Economic Affairs between 2014 and 2016, he served as an adviser to the Film and Audiovisual Coordination Council and was appointed special envoy by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Filmography Film

Television Year TitleRole 1988-1990 Knots Landing DirectorEpisodes: "A Weekend Getaway" (1988), "The Spin Doctor" (1989) and "Out of Control" (1990) 1990 Superboy DirectorEpisodes: "Brimstone" (1990), "Escape to Earth" (1990), "Revenge from the Deep" (1990) and "The Woman Called Tiger Eye" (1990) 1992-1993 L.A. Law DirectorEpisodes: "Love on the Rox" (1992) and "Hello and Goodbye" (1993) 1994 Picket Fences DirectorEpisode: "Terms of Estrangement" (1994) 1996 Second Noah DirectorEpisode: "God's Last Laugh" (1996) 1999 Periodistas DirectorEpisodes: "Una chiquillada" (1999) and "Fugas" (1999) 2001 The Color of War Voice director 2013 Capitán Centroamérica As "MUC"

Videogames Year TitleRole 1999 Emergency Room 2 Director 2000 Code Blue Director

Awards Academy Awards 1977: Oscar winner in the category Best Live Action Short Film with In the Region of Ice.